AFTER IMAGE
The International Curators Forum is an open conceptual network that meets to discuss emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar. It offers bursaries and professional development opportunities to curators and works in partnership with key national and international bodies.
This program has been conceived to promote opportunities for curators to visit and participate in several major international art events to enable them to network and gain experience for their career development.
ICF is an open peer to peer network and arena to connect ideas that have migrated across the world with professional developments that are increasingly global, but particular in their impact. The next phase seeks to create a range of activity that consolidates key partnerships and explores a wider range of professional development and mobility opportunities for curators, residencies, workshops and salons. For this development ICF is seeking to work with partners and funders in England, in the EU and beyond.
The aim here is to initiate and stimulate international discourse in a series of UK and international events entitled After Image: Enhancing The National & International Experience, which includes:
- Conferences in the UK (Wales & Bristol), Berlin (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Sharjah (Middle East), Bridgetown (Barbados), Sydney (Australia).
- 40 national and international bursary places for UK artists and curators.
- Three 9-month fellowship placements for UK artists and curators.
- Artist commissions.
- Curatorial commissions.
“An organisation which marks the changes, disruptions, and interventions that occur across major biennials over the next decade and documents these process to allow future and emerging curators to discover, learn and develop their professional practice.”
David A Bailey
July 2007: The International Curators' Forum (ICF) has become an RFO of Arts Council England.
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